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From skull to head (newbie work)

Hey guys !
My wife just just offered me a graphic tablet for Father’s day !

Thx to her I won’t sculpt with my mouse anymore ! :smiley:

so I want to make a head to start, and in order to improve my skills and my sense of proportions, I decided to sculpt the skulls , then the muscles, then the flesh…

I’ll try to go as far as I need for each step in order to keep a good structure between every phase.
Comments are welcom of course :slight_smile:

So here is the first WIP pic :

[skull02.JPG]

update : I start the basic muscles
still a lot to do :confused:
I think I’m going to repaet this workflow a lot of time B4 it’s gonna be good enough :slight_smile:

[skull03.JPG]

Keep going dude, you’re on the good track !

It looks like you’re following the Sybex book’s ideas with going from skull to face. So far so good though sir - nice work. If you haven’t picked it up though I’d recommend grabbing the Sybex book: ZBrush Character Creation: Advanced Digital Sculpting

http://www.sybex.com/WileyCDA/SybexTitle/ZBrush-Character-Creation-Advanced-Digital-Sculpting.productCd-047024996X.html

Keep it up.

guillom : thx dude you are like ugly father I never had :wink:
Helixdnb : you are right for the book, i already have it (excellent book that should be read by anyone). The tutorial in the book is itself inspired by Ryan Kingsley on ZBC if i don’t make any mistake.

It’s an excellent work IMO to improve myself :stuck_out_tongue:

I just rebuilt the topology cause it started to be hard for me no to screw the mesh around the eyes.
It’s not perfect, but it should be enough to sculpt properly :slight_smile:

[retoposkull.JPG]

you can always add the ears later and blend it with the clay brush.

:cool:

Right Guillom!
or i can rename my work “noearman” :cool:

Seriously for this time I am going to make the ear almost at the end (cause it is so tricky!), but you are right, i am going to adjust the topology in the ear area to have more definition !

Here is a better topo (now let’s sculpt a bit !):

retopo02.jpg

OK I quickly start adding the flesh, the mouth, the nose and the eyes (still a lot to do but hey I’m here to learn :))

skulltohead01.jpg